For today, links to 22 reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, Anadolu Agency, Middle East Eye, National Public Radio, Middle East Monitor, Common Dreams, and Agence France-Presse, and to commentary from Indian Punchline and ScheerPost; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Israel steps up pressure in north Gaza amid fears of siege and displacement, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO – At least 10 people were killed and 40 injured in northern Gaza today after Israeli tank shells hit people queueing for food, Palestinian medics said, as fears mounted in the enclave that Israel plans to displace all residents from the north. READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 13 Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside, by Julia Frankel | AP JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes. READ MORE . . .
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At least 21 killed as Israel intensifies deadly onslaught in northern Gaza, by Hosni Nadim | Anadolu Agency GAZA CITY, Palestine At least 21 Palestinians, including three children, were killed today as Israel intensified its deadly offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, medical sources said. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for AP and Reuters reports.
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EU foreign policy chief slams Israeli strikes on hospital, school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza, by Nur Asena Erturk | Anadolu Agency ANKARA — The EU’s foreign policy chief today condemned Israeli strikes on a hospital and a school that sheltered Palestinian displaced people in Gaza. “Dozens of civilians seeking safety,” Josep Borrell said . . . READ MORE . . .
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At least 18 killed in Israeli strike in northern Lebanon, tension high with UN forces, by Artorn Pookasook and Maya Gebeily | Reuters DUBAI — Israel expanded its targets in its war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon today, killing at least 18 people in its first strike on the Christian-majority town of Aitou in the north, the Lebanese Red Cross said. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for AP report.
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Israeli attack on Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza burns Palestinians alive, by Mohammed al-Hajjar and Rayhan Uddin | Middle East Eye The Israeli military has attacked tents housing displaced people at Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, creating a fire which killed four people and wounded scores of others. Medical sources cited by Wafa news agency . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Anadolu Agency.
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Hezbollah strikes back against Israel with one of its deadliest attacks of the year. Reported by Michel Martin and Jackie Northam | NPR A Hezbollah drone attack on an Israeli army training base killed four Israeli soldiers. The attack came shortly after the Pentagon announced it is sending Israel an advanced antimissile system. Click HERE to listen and, later, read. Click HERE for report from Middle East Monitor.
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FROM OCT. 13 Alarm as Pentagon confirms deployment of U.S. troops to Israel, by Jake Johnson | Common Dreams The Pentagon confirmed Sunday that it has authorized the deployment of an advanced antimissile system and around 100 U.S. troops to Israel as the Netanyahu government prepares to attack Iran—a move that’s expected to provoke an Iranian response. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from AP and Reuters.
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With genocide in northern Gaza, Israel aims to expel Palestinians: Arab League, by Abdulsalam Fayez | Anadolu Agency ISTANBUL — The Arab League on Sunday condemned Israel’s ongoing genocide in northern Gaza, accusing Tel Aviv of putting plans to depopulate the region in motion. In a statement . . . READ MORE . . .
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Life in a war zone: Israel ordered people in southern Lebanon to leave. Did they? Reported by Eyder Peralta and Steve Inskeep | NPR Southern Lebanon is being pounded by the Israeli air force. By some estimates, about a million people have left their homes. We her from some who have remained. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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World waits to see how Israel will respond to deadly attacks. Steve Inskeep of NPR asks Daniel Byman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about what Israeli retaliation to an Iranian missile attack could look like. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM OCT. 13 Lebanese ministry says Israel strikes killed 51 In Lebanon Saturday. From AFP. Lebanon’s health ministry on Sunday said Israeli strikes across Lebanon a day earlier killed 51 people. Saturday’s death toll included at least 22 people killed in three areas outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds. READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 13 Drone strike in Israel wounds almost 40 as Hezbollah claims responsibility, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli rescue services said almost 40 people were wounded Sunday in a drone strike in the central city of Binyamina, three of them critically. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group claimed responsibility for one of the most serious strikes to . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 13 UN says Israeli tanks burst into base, Israel gives different account, by James Mackenzie, Maayan Lubell and Michelle Nichols | Reuters JERUSALEM / NEW YORK – The United Nations said on Sunday that Israeli tanks had burst through the gates of a base of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the latest accusation of Israeli violations and attacks that have been denounced by Israel’s own allies. The Unifil . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 10 Stop Israel from bombing Iran’s oil sites, Gulf states urge U.S., by Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Pesha Magid | Reuters DUBAI — Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran’s oil sites because they are concerned their own oil facilities could come under fire from Tehran’s proxies if the conflict escalates, three Gulf sources told Reuters. As part . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 12 The Arabs are transparently displaying their crossover to multi-alignment in a U.S.-led Middle Eastern war, by M.K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline Suffice to say, the Arab world is already in the post-US and post-West era. Now, this also signals Riyadh’s unease about Israel continuing its war on Gaza and Saudi frustration with the U.S. for . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 13 Truths that come out like the sun, by Patrick Lawrence | Original to ScheerPost A war has been raging this past year — not as bloody as what Palestinians now endure, and what the Lebanese now seem to be in for, but it is arguably just as consequential. READ MORE . . .